Re: [PATCH] Important per-cpu fix.

[Alan Cox]

On Mon, 2002-09-09 at 09:15, David S. Miller wrote:
> Note that Andrew Morton found the problem on one of his older
> x86 EGCS's about the same time I found it on sparc64.

egcs gets so many long long things wrong on x86 that its only valid use
IMHO for 2.5 is as a syntax checker. Is it really worth an ugly hack for
a compiler one major developer has a personal affliction for and a port
that has a tiny user base and now has a working compiler.

Maybe if we put less gunk in the kernel they'd fix gcc more often 8)